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22/10/2026

🌊 Inside the Inside of a Wave continues this week at our Collingwood Yards gallery.

Looking over and under, around and within, the exhibition traces the paths between idea and image, conversation and creative conception. Along the way, it reveals the infinite perspectives, processes and stories that come together to make a work of art.  Featuring: Aidan Sefo, Alessandra DiMattina, Andrew Nicolaides, Chelle DeStefano, Darcy Scott, Dave Mendelsohn, Jimmy Tran, Molica Silk, Salome Felsinger, Spenser Coombe. 
Collectively curated by APA artist Spenser Coombe and APA gallery staff.  
 🔀🔀🔀   🌊 Exhibition runs until 21 November 
📍APA Gallery, Collingwood Yards

🕚 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Friday, 11am - 5pm. Saturday, 12 - 4pm   Image credit: Janelle Low (Janelle Low )
 🧬🧬🧬  Slide 1: Chelle Destefano, The Prism Family, 2026 chelle destefano
Slide 2: Install of works by David Mendelsohn
Slide 3: Molica Silk, Untitled, 2026
Slide 4: Install of works by Alessandra DiMattina
Slide 5: Exhibition installation
Slide 6: Salome Felsinger, Untitled, 2026
Slide 7: Install of works by Spenser Coombe
Slide 8: Featured work, David Mendelsohn, Completely Complete, 2024  

14/10/2026

🌊 Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of Inside the Inside of a Wave this weekend!

It was wonderful to celebrate this exhibition with our artists, friends and community, and to come together around the conversations, stories and creative processes at its heart.

Collectively curated by APA artist Spenser Coombe and APA gallery staff, the exhibition brings together emerging APA artists and invites audiences to look over and under, around and within each work.

🌊 Inside the Inside of a Wave continues through until 21 November

🕚 Gallery hours: Wednesday – Friday, 11am - 5pm. Saturday, 12 - 4pm

Image credit: Janelle Low (Janelle Low )

13/10/2026

We are delighted to share that APA artists will feature in Visionaries 2026 – Curated by Tali Roth⁠, at Craft Victoria.

Chris O’Brien (pictured Chris O'Brien )and a number of APA artists will be amongst 50+ artists and makers showing in Craft’s annual flagship exhibition. Curated by award winning interior designer Studio Tali Roth, the immersive Visionaries 2026 exhibition will celebrate a bold and playful approach to living with craft.⁠ ⁠ Visionaries 2026 opens 12 November – 6 February 2027.⁠

Craft: Craft
Curator: Studio Tali Roth ⁠ Click the Craft link in bio to discover the artists. ⁠

Image I: Chris O’Brien, holding his work, 17 Marjorie St, 2021. Works on the floor L-R: Heritage Hill, 2021 and Mr Grumpy’s House (he is blue and he has a green hat), 2018.

Image 2: Chris O’Brien, Heritage Hill, 2021.

Contributors:
Creative agency: The Artline The Artline
Photographer: Jedd Cooney Jedd Cooney
Set Design and styling: Emma Sandral Emma Sandral
Carpet: Supertuft SUPERTUFT
Wardrobe: HAVN H A V N

Images courtesy of Craft

12/10/2026

Now showing at Benalla gallery - Ross O’Meara: Coloured Grounds.

Within his practice, Ross O’Meara explores line and colour, consistently producing captivating works as part of an ongoing series. The abstracted pieces are reminiscent of long grass or reeds, the layers consisting of both dense and translucent linework. The elegant, whimsical compositions possess a soft energy and speak to slow, meditative movement. O’Meara has worked at Arts Project Australia since 2019. His work is held in private collections.

📅Runs through until 30 November 2026
📍Benalla Art Gallery, Pop-up Gallery

Slide images: Ross O’Meara, Untitled, 2024

Benalla Art Gallery

07/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us at our Studio After Dark fundraising dinner!🌝💖

We had such a fantastic night with 100 guests for a seated dinner, talks by APA artists and a live auction.

Thanks to the support of all our sponsors and the generosity of our guests we raised a total of $71,000 – a fantastic result that will directly support our artists. The generosity in the room was extraordinary!

A huge thank you to all our sponsors. A big shout out to our MC for the night - the incredible Tristan Meecham from All The Queens Men and auctioneer John Albrecht from Leonard Joel Auctions for donating their time to host this special night. A huge shout out as well to Delatite Winery for donating their incredible w**e for the evening.

To everyone who showed up, gave generously, donated, bid, celebrated and helped make the night so special, we can’t thank you enough. There was a lot of happy tears shed and so much love in the room!

With gratitude from all of us at APA 🙏💕

05/10/2026

Find new works by Bronwyn Hack at the Melbourne Sculpture Biennale: Soft Systems, opening this Wednesday 8 October.

Melbourne Sculpture Biennale 2026: Soft Systems considers the complex and interconnected systems that shape contemporary life. The participating artists’ diverse approaches offer different ways of critically examining these systems, and their impact on people, culture and the environment. Their works reveal systems as both tangible and intangible: structures that organise our lives, distribute resources and power, shape identities and influence our relationships with one another and the environment.  Soft Systems 8–25 October 2026 Billilla Mansion 26 Halifax Street, Brighton

Full info: melbournesculpturebiennale.com  Images:
Slide 1: Bronwyn in the studio, credit Kate Longley
Slide 2: Bronwyn Hack, Happy Heart, 2025
Slide 3: Bronwyn Hack, Lungs, 2025
Slide 4: Bronwyn Hack, Eye Heart, 2023

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Melbourne Sculpture Biennale

25/09/2026

Final day - 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩 finishes this Saturday 26 September.

Head to our Collingwood Yards gallery to catch the final day of this incredible exhibition curated by Gok-Lim Finch (Gok-Lim)

This group exhibition is about how we look at animals. What do we see when we look at them? And what does that say about how we see ourselves?  
Featuring Aidan Sefo, Alanna Dodd, Amani Tia, Anna Dehm, Anne Lynch, Anthony Romagnano, Brigid Hanrahan, Bronwyn Hack, Chris Mason, Diego Pizarro, Dionne Canzano, Eden Menta, Georgia Szmerling, Ian Gold, Jacob Cartelli, James Dawes, Jenny Ngo, Joanne Nethercote, Julian Martin, Lygin Ang, Matthew Gove, Michael Camakaris, Miles Howard-Wilks, Nhan Nguyễn, Paul Quick, Rebecca Scibilia, Rosie O’Brien, Ruth Howard, Salome Felsinger, Simon Paredes. Steven Ajzenberg, Terry Williams, Valerio Ciccone, William Murray, Abdul-Rahman Abdullah, Claire B Bushby, Danielle Freakley, Sophie Dumaresq and Tahlia Palmer.

🐈 𝘼𝙣𝙞𝙢𝙖𝙡 𝙂𝙞𝙛𝙩 finishes Saturday 26 September 2026 

🕦 Gallery hours: closed Friday 25 September for AFL grand Final public holiday

Open for final day Saturday 26 September from 12:00 pm – 4:00 pm 

📍APA Gallery, Collingwood Yards (Collingwood Yards)

Images:

Slide 1: Julian Martin, Untitled, 2013

Slide 3: Rosie O’Brien, Untitled, 2025

Slide 5: James Dawes, Wolves, 2024

Slides 2, 4, and 6, Animal Gift installation shots (credit janelle_low)

 

24/09/2026

🏈 APA gallery will be closed Friday 25 September for the AFL Grand Final Public Holiday. The gallery will reopen Saturday 26 September, for the final day of Animal Gift, curated by Gok-Lim Finch.

Image: Iain Gordon, Untitled, 2024

22/09/2026

Announcing: Inside the Inside of a Wave  ♒️

Every Wednesday at the Arts Project Australia studio, APA artist Spenser Coombe hosts a lunchtime meeting, posing questions to his peers: What things do people still collect? What are your favourite pets you have had? At the end of the working week, which foods may us people go for, as a treat? 
From these meetings, Inside the Inside of a Wave was born. Bringing together emerging artists from APA, the exhibition invites audiences to move beneath the surface of the artwork and into the lore that shapes it. 
Looking over and under, around and within, the exhibition traces the paths between idea and image, conversation and creative conception. Along the way, it reveals the infinite perspectives, processes and stories that come together to make a work of art.

Featuring: Aidan Sefo, Alessandra DiMattina, Andrew Nicolaides, Chelle DeStefano, Darcy Scott, Dave Mendelsohn, Jimmy Tran, Molica Silk, Salome Felsinger, Spenser Coombe.
 Collectively curated by APA artist Spenser Coombe and APA gallery staff.  
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Details: Opening Date: Saturday 10 October, 3 - 5pm
Location: APA Gallery, Collingwood Yards  Exhibition runs until 21 November 
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Featured artwork: David Mendelsohn Completely Complete 2024, collage, coloured pencil, ink on paper

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